...entrepreneur in the health sciences?  Is this a different story altogether? The unfortunate answer is yes, largely...process. I am the cofounder and CEO of miLab, a Boston-based startup focused on empowering early-stage... is more important than the product itself -- investors would rather fund excellent people with mediocre...Harvard/MIT faculty, venture capital and angel investors, and business development heads at major companies...

...population (pink histogram) compared to the WT cells (green histogram). The unfilled histograms show cells ....3995 Virk, H. S., Biddle, M. S., Smallwood, D. T., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, ...Z., Biddle, M. S., Wright, A. K. A., Sousa, J., Weston, C. A., Chachi, L., Roach, K. M., & Bradding, P...

...great deal more information that one might like to store about FPs than is currently represented at fpvis...a centralized, community-editable resource for storage and dissemination of information about FPs. FPbase.org...Users can “favorite” certain proteins, or create custom protein collections (such as a set of FPs that ...elaborate spectrum analysis tools, and a better way to store and represent within-study photobleaching comparisons...

...lab meetings with a focus on discussion and brainstorming Though, we might be forced to work from home...of each talk - time for free interaction and brainstorming. This could be achieved by asking each presenter...problem! You can still creatively collaborate and brainstorm! Image from Joseph Mucira.   Implement new...can be used as a break, but can also be used to brainstorm on data in smaller groups, where for instance...

...resources at Addgene. His background in history and specifically the history of RNAi left him a bit skeptical...Listen to the interview here! Doench majored in history during his undergraduate work at Hamilton College...just been discovered, the mechanism was barely understood.” Doench’s graduate work helped expand our understanding...

... by guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop from the Section of Molecular Cytology and Van ... cells within the dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct...our guest bloggers Joachim Goedhard and Marieke Mastop! Joachim Goedhart is an assistant professor at ...follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   Marieke Mastop is a PhD candidate at the Section of Molecular ...

...to package reprogramming factors. An important milestone of reprogramming is the silencing of reprogramming...involves making chimeras by injecting iPSCs into blastocysts and implanting them into female mice. Generating...complementation, involves injecting tetraploid blastocysts with iPSCs and measuring their ability to direct...PMCID: 5072705. 2. Sommer, Cesar A., and Gustavo Mostoslavsky. "The evolving field of induced pluripotency...., and K. Hochedlinger. "Induced pluripotency: history, mechanisms, and applications." Genes & Development...

...post was contributed by Oskar Laur, head of the custom cloning core at Emory University, and Paolo Colombi...probably time to prepare new plates with a fresh stock of antibiotic. Many small colonies surrounding big...University. Oskar Laur, PhD runs Emory University DNA Custom Cloning Service since 2009. He has  developed a...he has used for cloning of more than 10,000 DNA custom constructs. His work was acknowledged in hundreds...

...breast tumorigenesis: Friend or foe?." Histology and histopathology (2018): 18021-18021. PubMed PMID: 29978449...enzymes and metabolism reprogramming aren’t the whole story. It’s essential for a tumor to spread and to resist...sensitive ones. Though this process is not fully understood, a team of researchers lead by Takayuki Kogure...

... by guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop from the Section of Molecular Cytology and Van ...fluorophore will bleach. This is, however, not the full story. The photobleaching rate does not depend on excitation...our guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop! Joachim Goedhart is an assistant professor at ...follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   Marieke Mastop is a PhD candidate at the Section of Molecular ...

...standard approach is the direct method. ELISAs, immunohistochemistry, and immunocytochemistry may all use either...In the indirect approach, you can simply keep a stock of conjugated secondary antibodies on hand and use...signaling molecules. Many labs find that a trusted stock of secondary antibodies saves time and money when...the need for a secondary antibody. Other immunohistochemistry advances have found ways to increase signals...

...typically used in microscopy-based assays like immunohistochemistry, though they are also a common choice for...Hegazy, et al., 2020; Niemeyer, et al., 2007; Stoeckius, et al., 2017). Metal isotopes are useful for ...–1930. https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2007.267 Stoeckius M, Hafemeister C, Stephenson W, et al (2017) Simultaneous...resources on the Addgene blog Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and ConjugatesAntibodies 101: The Basics of Western...

...presence of Cre, the stop codon is excised, and gene expression proceeds. One popular lox-stop-lox plasmid is...with loxP sites on either side (often called a “lox-stop-lox” or “LSL” cassette) upstream of a gene of interest...is from Tyler Jack's lab: Lox-Stop-Lox TOPO.  Cre-dependent gene knockout – conversely, putting the loxP...

...efficient energy maintenance - through acquisition, storage, and utilization - and on self-propagation by reproduction...diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol gallstone disease, senescent illnesses, and the metabolic...other members of the complex, such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. ...sharing plasmids, providing researchers with a one-stop shop for plasmids and vectors, and making them available...

...blogger Clare O'Connor an Associate Professor at Boston College. National reports stress the importance...yeasts are thought to have diverged from a common ancestor ~350 million years ago. Over time, the two genomes... that is part of the biology core curriculum at Boston College. Students in the course work in teams of...biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics at Boston College. She is particularly interested in strategies...

...a nucleus -> DNA compaction around histones -> Examples of histone-modifying enzymes and reader-effector...repository that will help epigenetic researchers custom design their own engineering plasmid tools in about... specific chromatin feature (e.g. a methylated histone such as H3K27me3), a linker between these modules...

...Stanford develops engineered DNA systems capable of storing data and computing inside living cells. He's also...describing the development of “transcriptors,” transistor-like digital genetic switches that enable cellular...the beginnings of computational logic and data storage. What we don't have are the keyboards and displays...mining. There is an absolutely incredible hidden story here. The parts we are releasing simply plug into...

... convey enough information to tell a compelling story in an image or do you need a full exhibit? In a ....  Static. Can be difficult to convey an entire story or context via still images. Some things cannot ...information. Primarily useful for data-focused stories. In-person lectures, presentations, etc… Low...interested in scicomm. Difficult to do in-depth storytelling. Requires regular content production. Internet...

...unevenly, introducing distortions in your final images. It is possible to keep distortions to a minimum with...done about that.  Second, expansion introduces distortions. The goal in expansion is for your sample to ... L (2022) Super-resolution microscopy: a brief history and new avenues. Philosophical Transactions Royal...

...Biomedical research has a long and well-documented history of racial bias, which still impacts and influences...ancestry.  Understanding the impact Fig. 3: Histograms indicating the frequency (x-axis) which SNPs ...ancestry-based bias.   The correction process does not stop there. Currently, they are working with Broad's ...Further complicating the issue is the long and ugly history of reporting false essentialist links between biology...